This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

A reminder of what we have yet to reconcile.

Let's all learn a little, and not just wear an orange shirt one day.

I'm going to the post this afternoon, so if you purchase before 1pm pst, your order will ship out today! Everything is 20% off and your patronage will help me meet an impossible goal by tomorrow in order to keep my housing. You can shop my art at ko-fi.com/johnniejae/l...

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Autism is: fine, common, normal The problem is a world where only some brains are valuable/able to succeed. If we are concerned about Autism as a "problem," there are real tangible things we could be doing to make the world better for everyone instead of pretending we can prevent neurodiversity.

"We refuse to go about our normal lives, or to allow normalcy to exist, while our beloved neighbors are stolen. We are living in opposition to fascism, capitulation and complicity, however dangerously, and we are doing it the only way we can—together."

"History teaches us that atrocities do not begin with action; they begin with imagination, with the suggestion that some lives are worth less, that their removal might even be merciful."

Trans bans are always about policing women. Always.

Listers is so good! If you love birds, you'll enjoy this doc. (It's also very funny.) youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo?...

I just signed this electronic postcard to tell my member of parliament to stand up and protect our public postal service, and its jobs, before it’s too late. Will you sign too? #HandsOffMyPostOffice social.cupw-sttp.org/s/8NIDzu1m

Alberta's new electricity market is a further blow to renewables and could increase power bills. All of the uncertainty created by the government and the new market reforms have also put a chill on investment. We break it down. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-rest... #ableg #cdnpoli

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year? How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

Carney diehards getting the “Fell for it again” award day after day

Danielle Smith did her own research, found a bunch of bullshit, and is now basing anti-trans policies on it. #canqueer

Spain and Italy are sending warships to protect unarmed citizens bringing aid to the starving people of Gaza. Israel is a terror state engaged in deliberate mass starvation and killing of civilians. We need full sanctions. Full boycott and international action to end the genocide.

SCOOP: A consultant advising Alberta Health Services on private surgical facilities simultaneously negotiated with AHS on behalf of a company vying to open such a clinic, according to a confidential report obtained by The Globe. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Truth. Genocide complicity.

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

"...the strategy fits into the larger moralism that fuels the MAHA movement and is centered around this notion that modern life has made women “impure” and children’s health problems are a direct result."

Edmonton Short Film Festival Truth & Reconciliation Film Screening & Author Event Sep 30, 4-6pm @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social 10702 Jasper Ave #yeg Celebrating Indigenous voices & storytelling: short films by Indigenous creatives + talks by local Indigenous authors. FREE. Info: [email protected]

You’re much closer to becoming disabled or homeless than you are to becoming rich and wealthy. It’s not a moral failing. It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of. We need robust social supports & safety nets to ensure everyone is properly cared for.

It's a good day when new books arrive! I'm looking forward to all of these. #BookSky

No particular reason

The cover you didn't know you needed

“Our team basically got shorted three league games,” said one coach. “Girls are taking a hard hit, while nothing is happening with the boys.”

The reason the specific comedians that were loud before are now silent is because what's occurring is consistent with their politics It's been said for years that the comedians that say their free speech is being impugned from atop a stage with a mic were really saying they should be above reproach

New piece by Ellen Gabriel and I on the need to resist Canada’s “elbows up” colonialism.

my latest for the Star, pointing out the v obv disconnect between bill C2 — the Strong Borders Act — and the whole elbows up thing pro tip: you can’t claim the entire security & economic partnership is over and then willingly hand over all sorts of info sans warrant to the US

To me, "transformative" would be high speed rail and intercity public transit across Canada. Massive green energy projects. Fully-funded public healthcare with pharmacare and mental health. Slightly more fossil fuels and mining do not sound all that transformative. Definitions may vary, it seems.

This is where we're at now. 🤯

Charlie Kirk took up zero amounts of my emotional energy before he died and he'll take up zero in the future. But what the overblown coverage revealed is worth reacting to. Because what it revealed is the west's racist and fascist political and media culture open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...

All of these politicians rushing to speak out against ‘political violence in any form.’ As if we don’t see the political violence that they are okay with.

Most people in the US don’t oppose political violence per se but the political violence that isn’t state-sanctioned.

I want to once again reiterate what I said earlier. The reason the vast majority of Democratic and so-called centrist elites have acquiesced over and over again is that they are COMPLICIT. Because they actually know that direct confrontation is how you defeat fascists and choose not to do it.

Though most of our research focuses on 2SLGBTQIA+ youth and families disproportionately affected by bills 26, 27 and 29, it is imperative the public know how these bills will also negatively affect cisgender girls, write two experts. #abpoli

I want to know how much the Alberta government is spending on legal costs for all of their anti-science & anti-inclusion, anti-diversity, anti-equity, and anti-accesibility efforts. What's the spend to fight trans kids in court? What did the book ban cost? How much for the vaccine rationing? 1/

“The very Palestinians who are trying to negotiate some form of a truce with Israel, Israel then targets them and kills them.”

beware of people who want to "protect" the children but are vehemently opposed to empowering children, giving them information so they can have agency, teaching them about consent, and actually listening to them

Canada is cutting the Public Health Agency of Canada to be able to triple military spending. Maybe we can shoot avian flu with Canadian-made arms? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SN2Yqa/

Routine reminder that measles is so contagious that every infected person can be expected to infect 12-18 more people

Four years ago a friend asked for a book recommendation to help them understand Indigenous thought. I responded with a Twitter thread recommending various books for each month, a thread that became a series of panel discussions, now released as Bad Indians Book Club open.spotify.com/episode/0Vlp...

Most of the population has no protection from #Longcovid as most are not masking or vaccinating, mainly due to government restrictions, poor messaging & high cost/lack of availability of private vaccines (averaging £95 in my area). Covid vaccines were designed to reduce severity of infection, they🧵

A refusal to seriously address racism is why everyone is here. I don't know what to tell you.

“Peaches Ashley Jack, 16, was last seen on Aug. 29, according to the RCMP. She left a home near Pinetree Way and David Avenue to attend a concert at Rogers Arena, and has not been heard from since.” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... - @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social #Coquitlam #MissingPerson #MMIW #YVR

Children are not property. Parents do not get to do whatever they want to them and claim it's fine because it's their child and that no one has any right to butt into their private family affairs when what they are doing places their child in danger. Children deserve better.

Claiming that routine immunization requirements for school are an issue of parental rights dehumanizes children. Kids have intrinsic rights just as anyone, and parents are obligated to provide the best care possible for them. That includes providing them with indicated medical interventions.